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Yes, please -- I'd like to hear more about that! I've got the poem memorized, but mostly what I know about it is that Carroll thought of the last line first --

"For the Snark _was_ a Boojum, you see."

and ended up writing the other umpteen dozen verses just so that that would make sense as a punch line.



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